Word: sumo
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...Charles and Diana. In Tokyo, 92,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the royal couple's motorcade. Diana, who left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended a sumo-wrestling match. As always, Charles scored points for his unstiff reserve, but the irrepressible Diana at one point displayed her own brand of coy diplomacy. Having noticed a Japanese parliament member dozing while her husband addressed the Diet, the Princess later good-naturedly asked if he had been asleep...
...again proves to be the most effective remedy to the crime, filth, traffic problems, pornography, impoliteness, inflation, hypocrisy and general yuck which accumulates every time Man decides to congregate in groups of more than four. Raymond Burr also stars in this latest incarnation of the the world's biggest sumo wrestler...
...over America last week media wits were weighing in with the heavy jokes. Well, it was kind of amusing, from a limited Occidental view, to see Secretary of State George Shultz, no sylph himself, standing between two near naked sumo wrestlers from Japan in the federal drawing room at the State Department. The grapplers were in the U.S. for the first sanctioned sumo match abroad, in the hopes of winning new friends for Japan and the sport. Shultz, who was filling in at the last minute for the President, gamely turned to 268- lb. Grand Champion Chiyonofuji...
...slowly, unlike sake, which is downed in a gulp) to where to sit during a conference (not in the first seats offered) and when and where to take off one's shoes. The students are taught go, a traditional Japanese board game, and are introduced to the psychology behind sumo wrestling. The sessions, which combine lectures and role playing, have been a hit with many managers. Firms that have sent executives to the courses include Digital Equipment, Polaroid and Data General. Edward Colbert, chairman of Data Instruments, a maker of electronic sensors that does $1 million in annual business with...
...problem is as old as the European conquest of the New World. Between 86,000 and 110,000 Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians, members of tribes that had lived for centuries in relative isolation from the rest of Nicaragua, are now locked in a battle for the survival of their culture and lifestyle. Since the Sandinistas took power, escalating clashes between the natives and the revolutionary government have slowly developed into something approaching a full-scale Indian war. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Miskitos have taken up arms against the Sandinistas, operating from Honduran and Costa Rican bases...